Bloomberg Businessweek's Mormon cover aims to create controversy

Bloomberg Businessweek's Mormon cover aims to create controversy

There is a strong possibility the cover of the July 16 Bloomberg Businessweek magazine is going to make many members of the Church of Mormon very unhappy.

The cover, promoting a story called “How the Mormons make money,” features an image of John the Baptist blessing Joseph Smith, Jr., and Oliver Cowdery, saying “And thou shalt open a shopping, own stock in Burger King, and open a Polynesian theme park in Hawaii that shall be largely exempt from the frustrations of tax . . .”

Smith and Cowdery were the two of the founders of the Church during the 1800s.

Those are all aspects of the Mormon Church’s finances according to the article, which suggests the Church owns businesses that make billions a year.

A Reuters investigation suggested the Mormon Church is worth $40 billion.

The Bloomberg Businessweek article’s scrunity into the Church’s finances, comes as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — a Mormon — has seen his own wealth come under attack.

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